Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [pers pn] [be] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The irony of it is that Hawkeye was the progenitor of every Western hero , down to John Wayne in The Searchers , who by that time is a racist . |
| 2 | The essence of it is that information is material if it is likely to make a difference in user evaluations of financial statements . |
| 3 | There is more to say about this problem , but the essence of it is this question of fact . |
| 4 | Setting intermediate goals and providing an assessment of them is another way that feedback can help the student adjust her learning . |
| 5 | Bürger in such a context would assimilate both ‘ realist ’ and ‘ modernist ’ art to autonomous and bourgeois art , the only distinction between them being that modernism with its inaccessibility and greater cult of the creator is even more autonomous , more ‘ auratic ’ , than realism . |
| 6 | And there was a , a book , I always regret not pho photostatting it , where one of the people who write on health er made the point that you start with the full page in the book , and the outer band of it were all pictures of the world , and then it was erm a particular sort of location in a town , and then it was a house and garden and then it was a room in a house . |
| 7 | What else he had failed to tell her was that there was a fortune at stake — and that the custodian of it was this Bluebeard , this marauding monster … who , even now , while she was going through the motions of hating him , was turning her body to liquid honey . |
| 8 | In Judaeo-Christian tradition , the antithesis between them is another manifestation of the conflict dating back to Cain and Abel . |
| 9 | This policy of ‘ cost optimisation ’ will be continued into the current year , he said , and should be helped by the relocation of Siemens Nixdorf 's parent company , Siemens AG , into UK headquarters in Bracknell — Siemens ' lease on it 's former site in Sunbury has now run out . |
| 10 | Every new insight of God 's love for us is another motive to love others too . |
| 11 | A peculiar light seemed shed over everything , by dint of it being that house and no other ! |
| 12 | A suggestive thing about it is that action can be measured in units of Planck 's constant h . |
| 13 | Sharpness docks is now a shadow of it 's former self . |
| 14 | Whether he was intelligent enough not to pay heed to it was another matter . |
| 15 | Most interviewers knew that a mass of inconsistencies lay at the heart of Labour 's campaign , but getting Mr Kinnock to trip over them was another matter . |
| 16 | On a low table in front of her were some engineering trade magazines and a copy of the Financial Times . |
| 17 | ‘ If that gelding of yours is any good , I 'll put my hand in my pocket for him for Dolly . |
| 18 | Now you 're preaching the sacrament of the foaming fibreglass , and digging your rail into the face like it was some kind of religion . |
| 19 | Of particular interest to him were those writers who were ‘ concerned in different ways with human nature , individual and collective consciousness and the conditions of social order ’ . |